[LarryLied]

when religion is leeched in this fashion of too much content, all that is left is platitudes - or worse, banalities.

This is like judging the Catholic Church on a few speech by the Pope. The writer has no knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism at all.

[weikel]

Tibetian Buddhism is sorta like the Catholic Church of Buddhism, I do not believe Buddha or Christ would like the tightly organized, hierarchal, and doctrinaire nature of either organization( although the Tibetan Buddhist never had any real inquistions or the like).